سست
Malay edit
Adjective edit
سست
Persian edit
Etymology edit
From Middle Persian [script needed] (swst' /sust/, “slack, lazy”), Manichaean Middle Persian 𐫘𐫇𐫘𐫤 (sust, “soft, slack, lax”). Cognate with Northern Kurdish sist (“weak, powerless, limp; loose, slipshod, slack”), Talysh сыс (sıs, “weak”), Sanglechi sust (“lazy”), Khwarezmian [script needed] (swst, “low, contemptible”). Perhaps ultimately from Proto-Iranian *θrusta- (“pressed forth”), from Proto-Indo-European *trewd- (“to push, thrust”), whence Old English þrēotan (“to weary”).
Compare Old Armenian շուշտ (šušt), possibly an Iranian borrowing.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): [sust]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [sost̪]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [sust̪]
| Readings | |
|---|---|
| Classical reading? | sust |
| Dari reading? | sust |
| Iranian reading? | sost |
| Tajik reading? | sust |
Adjective edit
سست • (sost) (comparative سستتَر (sost-tar), superlative سستتَرین (sost-tarin))
- (dated, literary) feeble, weak
- (dated, literary) soft (giving way under pressure)
- (dated, literary) lazy, idle
- (obsolete) slow
- (literary) relaxed, negligent, phlegmatic
Derived terms edit
- سستعنصر (sost-o'nsor)
Descendants edit
- → Azerbaijani: süst
- → Armenian: սուստ (sust)
- → Georgian: სუსტი (susṭi)
- → Hindustani:
- → Middle Armenian: սուստկալ (sustkal)
- → Ottoman Turkish: سست (süst)
Further reading edit
- Bailey, H. W. (1979) Dictionary of Khotan Saka, Cambridge, London, New York, Melbourne: Cambridge University press, page 467
- Cabolov, R. L. (2010) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ kurdskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Kurdish Language] (in Russian), volume II, Moscow: Russian Academy Press Vostochnaya Literatura, page 267
- Morgenstierne, Georg (1938) Iranian Pamir Languages (Yidgha-Munji, Sanglechi-Ishkashmi and Wakhi) (Indo-Iranian Frontier Languages), volume II, Oslo: H. Aschehoug & Co., page 412a
- Nalbandyan, G. M. (1987) “سست”, in Parskeren-hayeren baṙaran [Persian–Armenian Dictionary], Yerevan: Luys, page 347a
- Palatecʻi, Gēorg Dpir (1829) “սիւսթ”, in Baṙaran Parskerēn əst kargi haykakan aybubenicʻ [Persian Dictionary in the Order of the Armenian Alphabet] (in Armenian), Constantinople: Boghos Arabian Press, page 507b
- MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 78
- Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “سست”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul, page 681
Urdu edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /sʊst̪/